CDAC

CDAC

 

       I’m not a regular blogger as u can see but in my efforts to find out more useful  info on CDAC courses except that what is given on official site ( www.cdac.in   and   acts.cdac.in ) that went in vain has encouraged me to write this one.  Also many of my friends asking me about the course info, fees , centres, duration and worth of doing the course have left me bored by their repeated questionnaire.

         I still haven’t yet started with the course. My batch is starting from 22^nd August 2012 but I am in some position to atleast share with you the details of the admission process. Let me start by my introduction. I am Gaurav Kelwadkar from Wardha ( near Nagpur). I just passed my B.E 8th semester examination in June 2012 ( Graduated but yet degree not available in the college) with 63 % ( phewww…..80% of u people must have got more than me and yes don’t ask me my college!!!). hahaha !!!

        After passing my final B.E exam in Electronics and Telecommunication  I knew I dint have any skills and know-how to get into a software company so I wanted to do CDAC it’s the best software course in present scenario. Many of u who r still reading may already know its worth so I’m not going to stretch it too long.

Admission Process : 

             CDAC offers many different courses but the best are Post Graduate diploma courses. I will be doing the PG-DAC courses from CDAC, Pune. There are around 50 centres in about 12 cities which includes CDAC’c own training centres ( 1 in each city) and many authorized training centres. The courses are offered in Advanced computing (DAC), VLSI ( DVLSI), Embedded systems (DESD), Software technology( DST) , SCADA ( DASS), Wireless and mobile computing ( DWiMC), IT security (DITISS), Integrated Embedded + VLSI ( DIVESD), system software development (DSSD), Healthcare informatics and Geoinformatics etc.

             The admission process has changed a lot from last 2 years. Earlier they used to have a 3 stage admission process. In the first step they used have a national level CET and then a GD and PI round. Now, you don’t have to go through that. Its just the CET ( called C-CAT) now that will give you the admission. First you have to register for the C-CAT test online. For this just register yourself on the CDAC site. The CET is held twice a year. I has 2 batches  August batch and January-Feb batch. The test is held about 2 months ago before the start of the batch course. Once u register on the site you’ll be able to fill the online form for the C-CAT. Rs.500/- basic fee + 100 Rs. for every course u apply ( you can do only one course). I applied for  10 courses( so  500+ 100*10=1500 Rs.) coz I was not sure about my performance in the test and I wanted to make sure I get a seat !! 

              Next step is the CET (C-CAT)!! The paper has three sections of 50 questions each. Section A has Aptitude and English, Section B is all about C and C++ , Networking, and Section C is Digital Electronics and Microprocessors. Negative marking is there -1 for each wrong answer and +3 for right answer. No need to prepare for Section A. If u r good in English its very easy to nail it. Read Let us C, Computer networking by Tanenbaum and first 3-4 chapters of C++ by Balaguruswamy for Section B. Also read the Computer fundamentals book by Pradip and Preeti Sinha. I didn’t  have to prepare for Section C as I belong to ECE branch. Read Morris Mano or RP Jain for digital electronics and 8085 microprocessor by R.Gaonkar. Its enough !!!

           The test was held on 17^th June and 1 July and the result was declared on  13^th July. The result is shown as

Section A rank :                       88

Section A+B  rank :                 243

Section A+B+C rank :             76

The above ranks are my ranks. Based on your rank you will have to give the choices for the course you want to apply for and the training centre where u want to do it. DAC,DESD,DVLSI are the best courses. 

Training centers :

1.   CDAC ACTS, Pune :

Here you will get best company with more package but more competition as all Pune centers have common placements so u need to  compete with 500 students. If you have top 500 rank u will get it. 

  
2. CDAC ACTS Bangalore :

                   

              Second best to Pune ACTS . Good for DESD,DVLSI courses. Top 1500 rank can get u there.

       3. Third choice will be CDAC,Hyderabad.  
       4. Sunbeam Pune and Sunbeam Karad :

                           These are good but management is strict. You’ll have to work real hard

    5.    MET, Mumbai or CDAC Noida 

    6.    Prepare again and write CET again ( other CDAC institutes are just waste for money)

The course fees is 79,000 Rs. and duration is 6 months with 12-15 hours a day including Sundays. So, work hard and best of luck !!! More to come about the experiences at CDAC and more info....

Sunday,27 June 2010

Google suggest

i have been a great fan of google suggest. it has also been one of the reasons for using firefox instead of internet explorer . google suggest was not available in earlier versions of google toolbar for internet explorer.today i found that google suggest is also available in google news. it only supports english not regional languages.who cares.....
one more thing that i like about firefox is that it fetches text before images and animations...so if u get ur link in a page u immeadiatly find what u r looking for ...u dont have to wait for graphics to be loaded..it saves much time..
opera guys r doing great work.... they r very innovative ...opera has a lot of great features..but there r many reasons why i dont use it
1. i use to press control enter and opera doesnt support this thing (available in firefox and IE).
2.google is supporting firefox a lot...when i got the news that google was hired main developer of firefox..i thought that they were going to develop a new browser...but that was not the scene ..they hired him to develop tool bars and to support firefox.
3.many sites r not supported by opera..it very frustrating u get a link to a song after wasting much time doing search then ur browser stops responding.
4.there r lot of extensions available for firefox.... u need to click once to check ur mail account..and u will get ur inbox wihout typing....many search engines r available......
so if u still dont use firefox....try it once and i promise u wud never go for other browsers
5.Try opening orkut in opera u'll find it out.

Sunday, 9 May 2010.
The need to express my thoughts and feelings have grown so much tremendous these days that i just can't resist writing a blog. i m not a regular writer, nor i'm good at English.Yet now i sit at 1.15am, (very rarely do i stay awake so long, i usually sleep by 10pm) bcoz i m just unable to sleep. this whole week i have been bedridden. i have got viral fever, body ache, dysentry, vomitting, complete loss of apetite. anyway i got just lot of time to think over things.

i realized that i have changed. and this has been an active process. i have witnesssed it. and m proud of it. it is not an achievement to be proud of but yet i feel i m a human being now. that i have a respect for life. that i can understand people now, at least i m able to breathe in this suffocating murderous world.

BDCOE, Sewagram is a dead college. The institution is a graveyard where the ghosts of lecturers do a thing they call "teach" to the young half-murdered hearts. they teach death. and thats expected because they were murdered too. not only this institution, but my school, the college, and this whole society were all the places where they taught death. people were intelligent enough to learn to die. to die to their desires, the things we want, actually want to do. laugh, jump, hug each other, read a lots of books, cook ,watch the birds flying high, listen to thier beautiful voices and see a beautiful sunset with a friend with your head resting on her shoulder, hands in hands.

the real problem started when i started dreaming of all these things. my friends were dreaming of good colleges for graduation, my father was dreaming of getting me an admission to the medical institution, many people were dreaming many things, many weren't dreaming anything. this all started in the summer of 2007, when i went to the ali coaching classes, (the mass murdering institute, a certified institution of performing a mass mental rape of students and preparing for a BIG death for the rest of their lives.) people were thinking of marks scores. the REAL problem started right there.i didnt think of any of these things. while my friends were doing hard study there what i was doing was playing my flute all the day, eating and sleeping. this was the beginning. this has caused a great torrent in my life. i have stopped studying and doing such idiot things from that very day. i havent studied any academic thing in these last 2 years and i have survived a fresh mind. a mind that has gained the ability to see the things as they are in reality.

now it becomes a problem for others when you start seeing things in the right way and express them. i have always been expressive. i rarely hold back things. angers, fears, weaknesses, abuses(the worst of them), feelings and all the other things. since childhood i have been expressing things the way i have seen them. from my 10 years of age upto my 12th standard i have been expressing all the ugly things. or say expressing things in an ugly manner. things are as they are. they simply exist. we express, modulate, speculate them according to our conditioning and our capacity to see them. but now i project things the way they are. and this has become a problem for my parents, the authorities of the institution i work in (especially Prof.B@g_#e) and in such a way for me too.

NOBODY talks about LIFE here. i wonder that is EVERYBODY DEAD? we are human beings, we need to talk to each other, we need a companion, to share our feelings, to fulfil our necessities both physical and mental, or else it becomes impossible to exist in this boring dead society. we have to survive and not just survive but LIVE. i have write this whole thing becoz i have a hope that some person out there is just looking for a person to LIVE a beautiful LIFE. AND YES, THAT's what i m concerned about. to LIVE A BEAUTIFUL LIFE. at any cost.i m waiting for that person to reach me.
"I am waiting for you dear."